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- 1.In Greek mythology, a son of Daedalus who flew too near the sun when trying to escape from Crete
- 2.The capital of Spain
- 3.Heinrich ___, German composer and organist regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach
- 4.1975 Steven Spielberg film based on a 1974 novel by Peter Benchley
- 5.Latin expression meaning from the beginning
- 6.Country whose capital is Kiev
- 7.Song with which Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest
- 8.The first permanent settlement by the English in America
- 9.___ Bennett, Welsh actor best known for playing the title role in the sitcom Shelley
- 10.Norwegian Nobel laureate who founded the discipline of econometrics
- 11.___ Beloved, 1994 film in which Gary Oldman plays Ludwig van Beethoven
- 12.The day before Good Friday
- 13.1979 single by Village People that reached number 2 in the UK
- 14.A widely used type of local area network
- 15.Roman statesman and writer noted for his relentless opposition to Carthage
- 16.Tailless macaque monkey associated with the Rock of Gibraltar
- 17.An ornamental centrepiece for a table
- 18.A wild goat with large backward-curving horns
- 19.1972 single by The Osmonds that reached number 2 in the UK
- 20.Hoax in which bone fragments found in a gravel pit in East Sussex were presented as the fossilised remains of an early human
- 21.Brimful of ___ 1997 single by Cornershop that reached number 1 in the UK in February 1998
- 22.A deep purplish red that is the complementary colour of green
- 23.Caribbean island whose capital is Fort-de-France
- 24.The ___, British rock band founded in 1973 by Robert John Godfrey, Stephen Stewart and Francis Lickerish
- 25.Measure of computer storage capacity equal to a thousand gigabytes
- 26.The insect Lymantria dispar dispar
- 27.The small ferocious carnivorous marsupial Sarcophilus harrisi
- 28.Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera subtitled The Peer and the Peri
- 29.See 17
- 30.Light snacks or appetisers, usually eaten with drinks in Spanish bars
- 31.A close-fitting woollen hood that covers the ears and neck
- 32.___ Productions, Alan Partridges company in the TV series Im Alan Partridge
- 33.The ___, Raymond Briggs book first published in 1978
- 34.The male reproductive organ of a flower
- 35.The 23rd president of the United States
- 36.Perry Comos first LP, recorded and originally released in 1955
- 37.English county whose administrative centre is Dorchester
- 38.Country established in 1918 that began to disintegrate in 1991
- 39.Theres No One Quite Like ___, a number one hit single by St Winifreds School Choir
- 40.An outline drawing named after a French politician
- 41.A collective of musicians who attempted to engage young people with politics in the period leading up to the 1987 general election
- 42.Shakespeare comedy subtitled What You Will
- 43.1980 Woody Allen film shot in black and white
- 44.City in Belgium that was the centre of the medieval European wool and cloth trade
- 45.The largest city in Cameroon
- 46.County cricket club whose one-day side is called Steelbacks
- 47.A dry red wine produced in Tuscany
- 48.A short story by Roald Dahl, originally published in The New Yorker, included in his 1960 collection Kiss Kiss
- 49.The longest river in Great Britain
- 50.A diurnal bird of prey of the genus Buteo
- 51.1995 novel by Robert Harris about a young mathematician stationed in Bletchley Park
- 52.Lead singer of The Who
- 53.The worlds first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles. founded in 1979
- 54.Welsh actor and director, born Alfred Reginald Jones, who won a Best Actor Oscar for The Lost Weekend
- 55.The capital of Hungary
- 56.The second-largest city and the last royal capital of Myanmar
- 57.US state whose capital is Montgomery
- 58.Lord ___, character in Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials trilogy played by Daniel Craig in the film The Golden Compass
- 59.The capital of Lesotho
- 60.Insect that travels in vast swarms, stripping large areas of vegetation
- 61.Small Mediterranean evergreen tree with glossy aromatic leaves
- 62.Tropical American plant, some species of which are the source of sisal and tequila
- 63.Jamaican reggae band who had a Top 10 hit in 1978 with Now That Weve Found Love
- 64.Song written by Mac Davis, originally titled The Vicious Circle, that was a hit for Elvis Presley in 1969
- 65.The southern school of Buddhism, literally the teaching of the elders
- 66.An aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver with a ratlike tail
- 67.See 15
- 68.Hymn that occurs immediately after the preface in the celebration of the Eucharist
- 69.___ Skah, Moroccan runner who won the mens 10,000 metres at the 1992 Olympics
- 70.County known as The Garden of England
- 71.Feast day on November 11; one of the four quarter days in Scotland
- 72.Harold ___, British Olympic 100m champion in 1924 whose triumph was depicted in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire
- 73.Inflammation of the stomach and intestines
- 74.A wall or jetty built out from a riverbank or seashore to control erosion
- 75.In ancient Rome, a member of a board of three officials with joint responsibility for some task
- 76.Evergreen Mediterranean tree cultivated for its edible shiny black fruits
- 77.Italian language opera by Mozart set on Crete
- 78.She-who-must-be-obeyed in the novel She by Henry Rider Haggard
- 79.English actress whose films include Blowup, Isadora and Julia
- 80.1971 T Rex single that reached number 2 in the UK charts
- 81.In former plant classification schemes, any organism that does not produce seeds
- 82.___ Shuffle, song that gave Boz Scaggs a chart hit in 1977
- 83.1979 Michael Apted film starring 36 Across , Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton
- 84.The episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome
- 85.Country whose capital is Oslo
- 86.One of several lines fastened to the leech of a fore-and-aft sail to aid in furling it
- 87.Genus of plants that includes the spurges and poinsettia
- 88.See 53
- 89.A period of isolation or detention, especially of persons or animals arriving from abroad, to prevent the spread of disease
- 90.Eponymous heroine of R D Blackmores novel subtitled A Romance of Exmoor
- 91.A standard cylindrical drum with one drumhead
- 92.Fruit, also known as sarda in southeast Asia, developed in Israel
- 93.In music, a note having the time value of a quarter of a semibreve
- 94.Italian novelist and short-story writer whose works include The Woman of Rome
- 95.East Sussex town whose Devonshire Park has been the venue for a pre-Wimbledon tennis tournament since 1974
- 96.English progressive rock band, founded in 1969, best known for the song Sympathy that sold one million copies worldwide
- 97.Philippe ___, French marshal who was Chief of State of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944
- 98.Legendary continent said to have sunk in the ocean west of the Straits of Gibraltar
- 99.Fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories written by Sara Paretsky, played on film by Kathleen Turner
- 100.Nigerian-born United States international who was at West Ham United from 1971 to 1975
- 101.British bobsledder who won gold in the two-man event at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck with brakeman Robin Dixon
- 102.Italian composer whose operas include Orfeo and LIncoronazione di Poppea
- 103.Play by George Bernard Shaw first performed in December 1923
- 104.Card game in which one player tries to win all the cards of the other player
- 105.Former lead singer of The Smiths
- 106.Popular name for the English Premier League team whose traditional nickname is The Lilywhites
- 107.Unfinished 1922 novel by Franz Kafka
- 108.English writer whose works include the novel The Egoist and the poem Modern Love
- 109.The 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet
- 110.American actor who died of a drug overdose in 1993
- 111.English murderer celebrated in a ballad by Thomas Hood and a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- 112.___ Island in the S Pacific was uninhabited until the landing in 1790 of the mutineers of HMS Bounty and their Tahitian companions
- 113.Country formerly called Siam
- 114.Genus of woodpeckers that contains the flickers
- 115.1972 Bill Withers single that reached number one in the Billboard Hot 100
- 116.Fred ___, the only male player in history to have lost his first five Grand Slam singles finals
- 117.See 1
- 118.See 5
- 119.Sheikhdom on the Persian Gulf whose capital is Manama
- 120.University city in central Germany on the river Saale
- 121.1993 film starring Patrick Swayze and Halle Berry
- 122.Winners of footballs European Championships in 1976
- 123.Amorphous mineral that is a source of iron
- 124.Winners of footballs European Championships in 1984 and 2000
- 125.Winners of footballs European Championships in 1992, despite failing to qualify for the tournament
- 126.In cricket, rounders, etc, a teams or individual batsmans turn at batting
- 127.Naturally occurring granular material often composed of silica in the form of quartz
- 128.Fictional Japanese secret agent created by American author John P Marquand
- 129.The seabird Larus argentatus, which has black-tipped white wings and pink legs
- 130.1827 novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third featuring Natty Bumppo, subtitled A Tale
- 131.Inaugural winners of footballs European Championships in 1960
- 132.English translation of a German proverb that first appeared in the medieval German beast epic Reinhart Fuchs by Heinrich der Glïchezäre
- 133.Winners of footballs European Championships in 1988
- 134.A flock of ravens
- 135.Winners of footballs European Championships in 1972 and 1980
- 136.Canadian singer who won the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland
- 137.Winners of footballs European Championships in 1996
- 138.Town in Bridgend County Borough, Wales, whose name translates as fair field
- 139.Winners of footballs European Championships in 2004
- 140.Plant such as Galanthus nivalis, which has white bell-shaped flowers that bloom in early spring
- 141.Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 2000
- 142.Poem written by Horace c. 19 BC and first translated into English in 1566 by Thomas Drant
- 143.Mixture of flour and fat used as the thickening agent in several classical French sauces
- 144.2012 Steven Spielberg film for which Daniel Day-Lewis won a Best Actor Oscar
- 145.British pop singer best known for her successful 1988 dance track The Only Way Is Up
- 146.An eight-legged invertebrate animal in the subphylum Chelicerata
- 147.In the southwestern United States, flour made of parched ground corn, mesquite beans, sugar, etc.
- 148.The basic SI unit of thermodynamic temperature
- 149.The large Eurasian passerine bird Corvus monedula
- 150.Winners of footballs European Championships in 1968